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By Bankole Thompson  On the surface, the public appearance of some major Detroit CEOs who came out on Wednesday to condemn racism in the wake

By Joan Blaney Like millions of people around the world, I watched in horror as yet again, the life of another unresisting, unarmed black man

Editor’s Note:  Samuel Bagenstos is a senior fellow at The PuLSE Institute, where he focuses on civil rights, health and housing law. He is currently the

Bankole Thompson, the editor-in-chief of The PuLSE Institute, Detroit’s independent anti-poverty think tank, was featured today in De Standaard, the leading Dutch-language newspaper in Brussels, Belgium, the

Tina M. Patterson, a Detroit native and attorney is the president and director of research at The PuLSE Institute, Detroit’s independent and non-partisan anti-poverty think

Editor’s Note: Sam Riddle is an honorably discharged Vietnam era veteran and a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. Riddle has over 45

The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has sparked a nationwide demonstration against police brutality and overbearing law enforcement. While the authorities in Minneapolis have

PULSE GLOBAL OUTLOOK  Editor’s Note: Gerard Mporananayo is the founder and chairman of the Employment and Youth Empowerment Solution (EYES RWANDA) in Rwanda, an effort that grew out

Editor’s Note: Dorothea Williams-Arnold is a teacher at Cass Technical High School in Detroit. A 14-year veteran of public education, she explains in this column

Samuel Bagenstos, the Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and a former principal deputy assistant attorney general for

Editor’s Note: The opinion columns and analysis on the historic Detroit kids’ right to literacy case that we publish are part of The Douglass Project,

Editor’s Note: Mark Rosenbaum is the director of the Opportunity Under Law project at Public Counsel, which calls itself the nation’s largest pro bono law

Editor’s Note: Detroiter Darrell Siggers went to prison when he was 20 for the 1984 murder of James Montgomery. He spent 34 years in prison

Editor’s Note: Herb Boyd is a nationally renowned journalist, activist, teacher and the author/editor of twenty-three books including his latest “Black Detroit: A People’s History